{"id":1923,"date":"2021-06-15T02:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:01","slug":"one-of-a-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=1923","title":{"rendered":"ONE OF A KIND"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday we hosted an open house to celebrate Samuel&#8217;s graduation from high school &#8211; another impossible milestone.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I must say I am proud of how much he made of his high school years and this year in particular &#8211; teaching himself computer coding, pulling off a successful senior project, acting in the school play, and helping out with our church&#8217;s kids ministry every weekend. All while holding down a part-time job.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few weeks ago Samuel and I walked around Columbus on a Saturday afternoon to shoot some senior pictures on the cheap. Towards the end of our time, I asked him to sit on the courthouse steps because I had in mind a photo I had taken during his childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_20210613_202400_499-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"1300\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_20210613_202400_503-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"453\" height=\"453\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh3zGzbAkcNKGsCxxHLhST8fqadwLUjsi4ji8ldqtAC3-iNDnrvNw1uONX7L_NPj_PdEGsbb5-GFDOqmG6t2qRnkUyiRX5YvlB2HDefPUkgPjijOqM2EA_mjbZpbUYWjC1nzUvRw40J35M\/w640-h426\/028%257E2.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1362\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEi9ruVMLYoDb1OQMI5ebkvZ5J4nuVcdZpoHTqYvZ-x-VSWZV70FmvtFugclhPc0pQmWO_LV8iKQRunn15oKg6h_OPm3RGOQvo6P7l6_IDVOP8unUeBD60f8JlPHsbXht8F2DjVNhD1i0bI\/w640-h426\/068%257E2.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1362\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjgp7SJjBrBGK27n0Krs6Zb0tBEx53SIsr8loh9eNDOLUuc02wg3bJZR75VbsDCZ3azhCoNZ13KETe2egHzS1nht5qcMtqNh1DSdaNxRYDc3zK8lYgSd-f-myDc0HqXFaA8lhYAg7e7l-k\/w640-h480\/100_0684%257E2.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEignLMgEGkK_Ef2zkZscMol2Im5ka9xaLtEgZkut60IsD9QA72K9AEZKd_4ncT3mx3hMSQorcYRUfsiSPnJgePKVUaTSP1FiELaunvHt-uOnoodZqtDbMW5K8IeMqAGu8krMzAmb9mThpU\/w640-h480\/100_2518%257E2.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgdH8WwPI9BwUPaxbG_77bgby1x4zVteZHHMQ0F-cn9zkA9b878fVjBuF1bpYWnZaStQ8oVuipjQFN6F2imi8gyJA2RCaGT4OrwzgJajLA_DvXvCFG7NkO5pz398YHSZejG2rx6CrlNPIo\/w640-h426\/Haiti+July+2011+203%257E2.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1362\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He&#8217;s a goofball.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we hosted an open house to celebrate Samuel&#8217;s graduation from high school &#8211; another impossible milestone.\u00a0 I must say I am proud of how much he made of his high school years and this year in particular &#8211; teaching himself computer coding, pulling off a successful senior project, acting in the school play, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/1936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}